Yeshiva Davis
LMFT, MBA – President & Founder
Yeshiva is a licensed marriage and family therapist, and owner of K&S Therapeutic Services, Inc.
She is passionate about helping working women who feel overwhelmed by all the hats they wear every day: mother, wife, divorcee, chef – I could go on. Yeshiva loves to use humor, music and pop culture to make therapy more approachable and relatable. She is on the Advisory Board of the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation, a non-profit created by Taraji P. Henson, in honor of her father. She has appeared on the OWN Network’s #LoveGoals, Entertainment Tonight and VH1’s Couples Therapy.
Kim Simmonds
MA, LMFT – Clinical Director
Are you at the intersection of “I’ll never get this documentation in on time” and“ I don’t know if I’m cut out for this job?”
No matter how hard you try, you find yourself two weeks behind on your progress notes. Then, when you sit down to write, you aren’t sure how to make your session billable. You procrastinate until the anxiety of not getting your assessments done on time gives you a headache. You’ve got two treatment plans to create and 1 in the que and can’t imagine how you’re going to finish them and meet production numbers.
Has it been so long that you’ve done laundry you’re down to your last pair of clean socks? You’ve been so emotionally exhausted that you haven’t cooked a healthy meal in weeks and the drive through cashier at your local McDonald’s has your name and order memorized.
Hi, I’m Kim. I help Associate and Licensed Therapists ditch stress, self-doubt and poor self-care – and embrace a new way of being a therapist by finding balance and joy in the career you worked so hard to have. I will help you discover ways to have space for the joy and satisfaction that comes with being a therapist – so you remember the reason you became a therapist in the first place.
Nicole Orsini
MS, LCSW – Director of Operations
Nicole is a lover of soccer and mother of two cookie eating boys. She is the Director of Operations at K&S and has almost 20 years’ experience in behavioral health. Nicole manages day–to–day operations and ensures that systems and procedures are carried out properly.
Her keen attention to detail is innate and is complimented by a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Southern California, where she was a Dean’s Scholar. At USC Nicole learned the ins and outs of social work, mastered social welfare policies and made life–long friends.
After USC, Nicole’s career took a few twists. She was a diversion court liaison for clients in a Substance Abuse & Crime Prevention Program. She managed fundraising efforts at UC Irvine’s fundraising telethon, where she raised more than ahalf million dollars, and provided therapy in a private practice setting.
Because Nicole has unparalleled administrative and management skills, when her friend from UC Irvine, her undergraduate alma mater, mentioned the need for an administrator at K&S.Nicole jumped at the chance. Now she can be found working from her home office, which is beautifully decorated by her sons’ artwork, skillfully keeping all the balls in the air —and all the Is dotted and Ts crossed.
Bridgette Mitchell
LCSW, RPT-S – Supervisor & Therapist
Have you ever experienced the ‘melt-down domino effect?’ You are working out a problem with one child, and all of a sudden, another child melts down too? And you’re thinking Wait…What!??
Or your partner gets involved — but doesn’t back you up. He takes your child’s side and undoes all your work to calm the situation down. Now those pesky emotions like anger, embarrassment, and fear get so Big you can’t hide them and you’re at each other’s throats.
It doesn’t have to be like this. Stop struggling alone. You are not a bad parent. Raising children is difficult. Having a family is difficult. No one prepares us with the parenting skills and grace it takes to be a good mother and wife.
Hi, my name is Bridgette. I’ll work with your child to figure out what’s causing his struggles and show you how to work through them. We’ll build a parenting tool kit, so you know exactly how to handle problems when the show up.
What happens to one person in the family affects everyone, so we meet as a family too. A peaceful, loving, joyful family life is not out of your reach. You’ll see.
Kelly Quintana
MA, LMFT – Clinical Supervisor
Do you struggle with ways to use interventions from theorists like Freud and make them relevant to the 21st century?
Maybe countertransference is sneaking up in sessions, and you need help putting it back in its place. Therapists can have Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), just like clients. So, staving off secondary trauma is tricky. That’s worrisome because it interferes with you providing great care.
Does this ring a bell? Sometimes you dread a call from your supervisor — you know he wants to talk about documentation or productivity. When you just want to talk about how to help your clients.
Hi, my name is Kelly!
I show therapists how to take lessons from grad school and tailor them, so they are relevant and applicable to their clients. I also share ways to alleviate the stress that comes with the ‘administrative’ part of therapy by sharing time, organizational and calls – all your paperwork will be up to date.
Helping you find the sweet spot between: doing the work you love and helping your clients succeed– is my jam!
Doing this work means you have a lot of balls in the air, I’m looking forward to helping you catch and sort them out.
Brittany Oliver
MA, LCSW – Therapist
You are tired of talking about the same things to family and friends — because they are not getting better and — they are tired of hearing about them.
You find yourself having the same problems with different people — partners, kids and colleagues. But you aren’t able to resolve them, you don’t know why and it’s really disrupting your life.
No matter how hard you try, or what changes you make you just can’t find the happiness you know you deserve.
What if you had someone to help you sort things out? To help you see the world through a different lens and help you understand why you do what you do. And how your childhood, family and relationships impact how you live your life today. Someone who makes you feel safe digging into the parts of your life that you’ve kept secret because of embarrassment and shame.
That someone is me. Hi I’m Brittany! Sometimes we need a neutral and non-judgmental person to help us navigate through the bumps and bruises of life. I can help you unpack the toxic, emotional stuff and replace it with happiness, emotional comfort and joy. Together we can rebuild parts of your life, piece by piece, until it looks like the life you’ve always wanted to live.
Jessica Jimenez
MA, LCSW – Therapist
You’re a member of an underrepresented population. Maybe you’re a first-generation American or African American. The truth is most people don’t’ understand what it’s like to be in your shoes, how isolating and frustrating it can be.
Perhaps, you’ve experienced trauma and no matter how hard you try to put it behind you — it keeps showing-up and causing problems. It makes you a super worrier, your feelings get so strong and overwhelming you burst with anger at the people you love
The thing is you want to do things differently. You want to be in charge of your emotions and put trauma and sadness in their place. So, they don’t cause trouble.
That’s where I come in. Hi! I’m Jessica. I create a safe, judgement-free zone. So, we can figure out why situations from the past keep seeping into your todays and tomorrows. And the best part is — all this makes room for The Good Life: happiness, grace, fulfillment.
Jill Drenth
MSW, LCSW – Clinical Supervisor
Do you feel like you are just going through the motions? Have you been on auto-pilot for so long you can’t remember the last time you felt joy or had fun? Maybe you’ve completely neglected yourself. So, when you get home from work you just collapse. You don’t talk or hangout with your family because you have nothing left to give — PLUS you still have some progress notes to write.
Being rundown and burnt out, has made you discouraged about your future. You doubt if you’ll achieve success and satisfaction working in community mental health AND enjoy a full and happy life.
Hello! I’m Jill. I know what you’re going through because I’ve been there. I’m a recovering burnt out, self-neglecting therapist. I don’t want you to stay stuck in that ‘burnout life’ as long as I did. Let me hold space for you to decompress and get the support you need to level-up your clinical skills and restore your well-being.
Imagine how it will fee to hold space for clients, provide quality care — AND have room for yourself, your family and clinical growth. The career and life you planned is possible. Let’s work together to get you there.
Dr. Tabitha Taylor
Psy.D., AMFT – Therapist
Are you ready to find freedom from your past, be it your childhood, relationships or personal mistakes? Freedom from thoughts of self-doubt and low-self-esteem? You know the kind…they feel like they are on a constant merry-go-round inside your head.
How about freedom from the strong black woman stereotype that says you have to balance the world on your shoulders, take care of everything alone — and with a smile on your face to boot?
You deserve freedom from emotional overwhelm caused by pesky feelings that get the best of you, like sadness, anger and fear. Because no matter how hard you try to lock them in, they somehow escape. Making you push away the people you want to keep close.
Imagine how good this freedom will feel! It will put you on a journey to self-love and self- discovery. When you love yourself, ask for what you need and are no longer controlled by your emotions, you make space for peace, joy and help from others.
Hi, my name is Dr. Tabitha!
I’m excited to lead you to emotional freedom. My mission is to help you overcome anything that stands in the way of your happiness, like unhealthy ways communicating and loving. I can’t wait to help you wake up each morning and embrace the beauty of you; flaws all. Come take this voyage with me.
Maria Vogel
AMFT, MA – Therapist
Sometimes people who’ve had difficult childhoods or wounds from bad experiences, no matter how hard they try — can’t shake those memories. It sucks because it keeps them from having a life they want and deserve.
It’s tricky to get help because your life looks great on the surface. You look like you have it all together– great career, beautiful family. But deep inside, you’re scared and in pain.
Perhaps you can’t sleep and it’s causing problems at work or school. Or you have ZERO patience for your partner or child. It can get so bad that you feel like you’re just one argument away from leaving it all behind.
Maybe there is a child in your life who is struggling. Kids suffer from bad relationships and experiences too. It just looks different. Their friends start changing – or they don’t have any friends at all. They pop-off about any and everything. Grades go from As to Fs and they don’t care. If you have a kiddo or know one who needs help getting past hard times. I can help them too.
Hi, I’m Maria. Let me help you work through difficult things that have happened in your past, so they can stop stealing your future. I’ll provide a safe, judgment-free zone for you to unload the hard parts of life. Together we’ll reshape how you show up in the world and create a life you’re excited to live.